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Have students imagine that logical operators are people making decisions to help them think about how the operators work.

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  • You can give the operator characters names appropriate to their functionality, like "ANDrea" or "OReo".
  • Ask students what different characters would do in various situations.

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  • Intro Programming
  • Programming Concepts
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From WOOLLARD, WILLIAM JOHN (2004), “The rôle of metaphor in the teaching of computing; towards a taxonomy of pedagogic content knowledge.”, University of Southhampton, School of Education, PhD Thesis, pg 121

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